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Latest Blog Posts

16 October 2026
If you want to find champion jockeys all in the same place and on the same day, the best place to look would be George Boughey's Saffron Place Stables on the Hamilton Road in Newmarket. Not only is the new champion flat jockey Billy Loughnane the ret...
15 October 2026
Once more I quote from 'Men and HorsesI Have Known', a book, you might be pleased to know, I finished reading yesterday morning.  'Racing for a short time was stopped by the War. The reason for this was simple; a certain amount of sentimentalist...
14 October 2026
I have waited until I have witnessed a good number of races before commenting on the new starting procedures for National Hunt races. Of course, single-digit fields at Hereford or Stratford cannot be the litmus test for the new procedure, that will c...
13 October 2026
I think it is fair to say that Potters Charm would be the classiest horse to be seen so far this jumps season and though he did not win by far yesterday at Worcester, I liked the way he raced with his ears forward, as if he was enjoying his day out. ...
12 October 2026
As I have come to expect, and you cannot imagine how much I envy the quality of his writing, Lee Mottershead hits the nail on the head in the debate/dispute over whether geldings should take part in the Prix de I'Arc de Triomphe. The argument used by...
11 October 2026
If I ever read the breeding column of the Racing Post it will be James Thomas's Diary which is usually in the Sunday edition. Thomas is a skilled writer; he makes what can be a boring occupation come across as exciting as a close finish to a Wolverha...